So there's a cat 5 hurricane approaching

This week was quite the adventure. Like honestly it has been probably the craziest week of my mission so far. We were sitting down to dinner on Wednesday with a family and they were talking about a tropical storm. That was the first we had heard of it. Then it turned into a hurricane, then they predicted it would be a cat 3 when it hit us, then cat 4, and now it is almost the most powerful cat 5 hurricane ever. It looks like it might just glance the edge of Florida, and I'm in Central Florida bunkering down right now, so I'll be fine.

After we found out about the hurricane, we did almost nothing but service all week. We didn't even have to put on white shirts on Thursday or Friday. We put up shutters for a whole bunch of members. It was quite fun actually. It's nice having a break from knocking doors. The only problem was that it was pretty hard work and we did it all day in the blazing heat. I don't think I've ever sweat so much before.

We also had to buy a bunch of supplies for the hurricane. It was pretty unusual walking into the store and not being able to buy bread or water. Gas stations also started running out of gas on Saturday. After we bought all of our supplies Saturday, they evacuated all the coastal missionaries further inland. So I'm currently in St. Cloud for who knows how long. We aren't allowed to drive too far, so we have been sitting in that apartment doing nothing for a few days, and we'll probably have at least a few more days of sitting ahead of us.

That's about it for the week. There's a hurricane coming, and it messed up our whole week. I'll probably get some good pics this week and some good stories, so stay tuned for next week's email.